Hasta La Gadget!

In Japan, retailers are asking their customers: “Why don’t you be like chocolate for your loved one this year?”
Masaki Matsushima’s perfume “mat;chocolat” makes you smell like dark chocolate with a hint of fresh fruit flavor, blackcurrant and rose.
It’s not a sickly sweet perfume, it is more of a bitter dark chocolate smell. So why not be dark, mysterious and delicious this Valentine’s day?

Valentine’s Day—that cherished celebration of love and its joyful bounty—is just around the corner. But for the lonely-hearts littered across the country, seeing couples enjoying all the love and the happiness and the not-being-perpetually-alone-for-eternity can, perhaps, pour a little salt on a long-standing wound. More »

Mark Anderson has done it again. He can’t help it. He loves building LEGO creations. A holiday is just another excuse to create something neat out of the little plastic bricks. In preparation for Valentine’s Day, Mark built this cool spaceship.

Of course, it is shaped like a heart, but this heart is powered by two huge round red engines that swivel and look super powerful. Of course, the pilot’s appropriately named “Captain Val N. Tine.”

The Captain has to deal with an enemy rocket that has pierced the fuselage and the rocket looks a lot like Cupid’s arrow through the heart.

This would be a great gift for any geek girl into LEGO.

[via Neatorama]

Valentine’s Day is coming up (it’s Thursday I hear), which probably means you’ll be eating overpriced chocolate with your sweet loved one or eating fair priced chocolate alone. Either way, have no guilt because chocolate is “good” for you! These five scientific facts about the chemicals of chocolate prove it so. I BELIEVE. More »

Valentine’s Day. Blerg. But hey, if we’re going to be surrounded by corporate sponsored true love, we may as well have some fun. Here’s a video from ASAPScience describing the way love works, scientifically. It’s a little more complicated than you might have realized. More »